Popular and Commercial Music

The Beatles. Kendrick Lamar. Alicia Keys. Talking Heads. Adele. What do these performers have in common?

They’ve all made music that is creative, artful, challenging, innovative—but also wildly commercially successful. Our popular and commercial music program welcomes rock musicians, rappers, EDM artists, singer/songwriters and all other musicians who might not necessarily have a background in classical or jazz.

Music Business

Loyola's Music Business programs prepare aspiring musicians, producers, performers and executives for success in the entertainment industry. Here, you grow your skills onstage, in the classroom, in the studio and in the boardroom. We’ll teach you to share your vision with the world, protect your work and grow it into a lifelong career.

Our programs can teach you the business of music and how to properly capture and share your sound—and the sounds of others—with the world while still pushing you to sharpen your musical ability.

Jazz Studies

So you want to study jazz? We don’t think there’s anything cooler.

Jazz is America’s smoothest and most daring contribution to the world’s musical lexicon. And we have the oldest program in New Orleans dedicated to the study of its history and performance.

Undergraduate Degree Programs

Bachelor of Music: Jazz Studies

Sociology

Investigate the social world around you and use science to improve it.

Sociology is for you if you want to understand patterns of human behavior, problems, and institutions. Community engaged professors will give you the skills and analytical tools to learn about the things you really care about, so you can do something to improve the world around you.

Undergraduate Programs

Bachelor of Arts in Sociology

Languages and Cultures

Sometimes when opportunity calls, it speaks another language.

When you meet someone, knowing another language gives you an additional opportunity to connect. That’s why the goal of our program is to teach more than just the appreciation of other languages, literatures, and cultures, but also to broaden perspectives and gain a better understanding of the world.

History

Ghandi once said, “A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.”

Loyno’s history department seeks to do just that. In the pursuit of justice, we guide our students through an exploration of the past and all of its intricacies and nuances. Those higher levels of historical thought can only come through a scholarly search for understanding.

Undergraduate Degree Programs

Bachelor of Arts in History

English

With its rich literary tradition, New Orleans is the perfect place to study the printed (and the digital) word.

The award-winning English department at Loyola University New Orleans offers a dynamic program with exceptionally accomplished faculty who work closely with students on independent studies, collaborative research, publishing, capstone experiences, and creative projects.

Undergraduate Degree Programs

Bachelor of Arts in English

Classical Studies

The Examined Life.

The Jesuit tradition demands that students develop critical thinking above all else. Like Socrates, it demands that we walk through life not unexamined—but that we analyze and reflect before and after acting. This tradition of unshakeable discernment is but one way in which Loyola’s Department of Classical Studies meets and exceeds the developmental needs of its students.

Undergraduate Degree Programs

Bachelor of Arts in Classical Studies